A newlywed couple retreats to a secluded lakeside cabin after their V-E Day wedding, beginning married life amid the uncertainties of the postwar world.
Historical
182 stories · Pre-1950s settings — Victorian, medieval, ancient worlds..
A reluctant chambermaid and a secretly gay Prussian prince navigate courtly duty and unexpected desire in this bawdy historical tale.
A sixteen-year-old girl in 1950 post-war Britain, bullied by her older brother for being a plain glasses-wearer, finds her life transformed when he takes on an unexpected role.
A lonely shopkeeper in 1960s India navigates theft, relationships, and his first sexual encounters with the women around him.
A quiet student discovers a life-changing secret in the Costa Rican jungle after encountering a jaguar shaman caught up in a Spanish conquest.
An alternate history where Christopher Columbus secures ships for his voyage by offering sexual 'indulgences' to Queen Isabella of Spain.
A Victorian gentleman acquires a Dartmoor estate and asserts his authority over the proud housekeeper Miss Blenkinsopp, demanding she sacrifice her virtue to keep her position.
A grizzled mountain man in 1840 reflects on two decades of trapping life as he considers trading his wilderness existence for a farm and a wife at the last Rendezvous.
A Trojan survivor fleeing the fall of Troy is rescued by a divine forest nymph who offers him a second chance at life and love.
Inspired by the film 'Yanks,' an interracial and intercultural WWII romance between American GIs stationed in Northern England and local British girls.
An American western frontier story introducing characters and setting before romance blooms between them.
A city guardsman and his newlywed wife navigate her traumatic past while he investigates the murder of a merchant in a medieval fantasy setting.
In 1861 Northern Texas, childhood friends Pete and Abigail reunite for a passionate encounter that introduces the larger story to come.
A Welsh war bride writes a heartfelt letter to her surprise late-in-life daughter, reflecting on a lifetime of love with her American GI husband.
A bored lord rides to a convent on his land to exercise his ancient right to a virgin bride, forcing the mother superior to comply with his demands.
A chaperone's quiet evening with her aristocratic charge and the charge's betrothed takes a turn when the lord quizzes his future bride on her sexual knowledge.
A weary ex-military butler endures the Dowager Lady Margaret's probing humiliations and fantasizes about defiling her in revenge.
A Victorian-era rake is forced to marry a lesbian for her half-million-pound inheritance, leading to an arrangement of mutual convenience.
A young Roman man in Pompeii spares a slave girl at a brothel, setting the stage for a tender love story in the shadow of Vesuvius.
A woman recovers from her traumatic past in a brothel and prepares for a pivotal dinner to outmaneuver her manipulative former captor.